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Show t 3 DODO Reverse Lend-Lease The average American, while approving ap-proving Lend-Lease, has probably regarded the program as a rather altruistic, one - way arrangement, prompted by practical as well as humanitarian hu-manitarian necessity. He has heard oi "reverse Lend-Lease," to be sure. But he has concluded that it is an arrangement ar-rangement whereby we swap planes ana tanks and guns for Scotch whisky and Harris tweed; a good-will gesture ges-ture from our hard-pressed Allies, but f nrrfrnm f r.nlv l(iVn nrnnnrtinns. This impression was corrected in the case of England by Brig. -Gen. Albert Al-bert J. Browning, director of the Army-Service Army-Service Forces' Purchasing Division, and a native of Utah, at a Washington Washing-ton press conference following his re-turri re-turri from an overseas inspection trip. He told an enlightening and encouraging encour-aging story, not in terms of pounds ahd dollars, but in the perhaps more vital terms of. shipping space and production efficiency. The British furnished to American forces based in the United Kingdom, during the last seven months ot ly4z, articles and equipment and construction construc-tion material totaling 3,846,920 tons. Mathematically, that is the net cargo capacity of more than- 500 Liberty ships Actually, it would have taken 'a larger fleet to carry these products overseas, even though some of the raw materials were shipped from the United States, because many of these products were bulky spacewasters. There was nothing very spectacular spectacu-lar about Britain's output for its American Amer-ican soldier-guests. But a big army needs hundreds of items besides nlrmM and- tanks and aims and am munition. It f needs coal and filing It needs tanks of oxygen and acetylene, acety-lene, it 'heeds drugs and cement and copper wire and garbage cans, fire extinguishers and mobile kitchens i:nd shoelaces and saws and ham-:ners ham-:ners and soap. " Britain made ali these and more, big things, little things, most of them commonplace, but all adding up to just as. much shipping space -as the tools of frontline warfare. In addition, the United Kingdom has provided American forces with tons of food, thousands of pairs of gloves, millions of socks. British workers work-ers made 50,000 bicycles for Americans, Amer-icans, because American cycle manufacturers manu-facturers are now making munitions. Pre-war America was almost wholly whol-ly dependent upon imported surgical instruments, so British workers are supplying the Army with scalpels and forceos. Thev are makina much in- flammable material that would be dangerous to ship. And, of course, they are relieving the "arsenal of democracy" of countless jobs that would consume jmillions of man-hours. man-hours. r General Browning's report should leave us all feelin,g that there is a good deal more to be said for Lend-Lease Lend-Lease than complaints of the "quart of milk for every Hottentot" variety. PROVO (UTAH) fcihl Herald! fTHE WASHINGTON! WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1943 DESK CHAT Favoritism to Which We All Subscribe BY TOE: EDETOB ! Tools of War . There ' is an intriguing measure of poetic justice in the recent discovery X T ui 1 1 vuunu vv ktt n sp pnninppr u He has found that precision-tooled spaghetti is much superior tottie'wire formerly used in holding tiny cables for electronic tubes while -they are being welded. The electronic tubes go into war communication instruments instru-ments that play a vital part in the mop-up of Sicily and the bombing of Italian industry. The secret of the spaghetti is that, once used,, it can be quickly burned out,;, whereas the wires formerly employed em-ployed were hdxd to remove. I tie young engineer who discovered discover-ed the trici; and who loathes a spaghetti dinner as he loathes the in stitution ot r ascism has hired an. Italian dfh maker to. prepare his industrial in-dustrial J spaghetti on Italian ma- ?)f&ai' -balls or tomato sauce, Have you read your copy oi the agriculture handbook now available from the Census Bureau, ..nnrintinrK! fltlfi lllUStra jt.or.s -of the Uses of Agriculture Census. Statistic m ucation Business, nesearcn Analysis; with explanatioms oi the technique of Tabulation and Procedures," based upon the lbtn census, taken in 1940? It contains 244 printed pages plus 3, of white space for dood-ling dood-ling Each page is 9 by 11 3-8 inches. The number-fed pages are preceded by four others designated designat-ed by neat Roman numerals. Ihere fa a four-page insert in three colors on higher grade paper Page after page is covered with pictures, pic-tures, ?hlrts, graphs, tabulations, m C?ur copy has been received, and is filed m me sauuii "shortages" with cross-references to "White Paper," "Metals," "Manpower" "Man-power" and "Good Judgment. .ioOo There is a rumor around Provo that the long-delayed resurfacing of the East Center asphalt paving pav-ing job is finally ready to get under way. We hope the rumor is well-founded. well-founded. After the sudden cold spell of the last few days, there has been some fear that an early winter is on the way, in which case, it would be too late to finish fin-ish the lesurfacing job this season. sea-son. oOo- The agonizing torture devices in vogue during the Inquisition ot the Middle Ages ought to be revived re-vived for the special benefit of the people in our mdoern age who break bottles on the streets. You don t nave to oe accuseu w "'6 :....,,! Vi f cnrliotir. i m TYllTs?" tG IIIO LI V dlCU uy aaujvn. i...-.- i i .. .1 r. ; ooa t Vipcp hottlo breakers harnessed up in a stretcn- - i, : . . -v , b-inH until lllfo IllUCIUUe Ul oumc they premise never to break a bottle on a public street again. It might be well to stage the stretching party in public accom-, panied by appropriate announcements announce-ments that, the victim was apprehended appre-hended breaking bottles in. the street. Sure. I know: It s catching be fore hanging I" It must have been a "dead-heat", when the Salt Lake Telegram and the Deseret News, recently hit the streets almost simultaneously With "exclusive" report ot tneir iniei-est iniei-est in the case of an osteomyelitis victim. One stated: "Through the efforts ef-forts of the Salt Lake Telegram enough of the famed wonder drug, peniciUin, may be released to an 11-year-old boy," etc. The other: "As the result of the efforts of the Deseret News, the name of an 11-year-old boy o offering from a serious bone in fecticn was placed high n the nation's list of possible recipients of penicillin." oOo The Fool Who Would Not Advertise (With apologies to Edward Everett Hale) Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said: "My trade of late, is getting bad I'll try another full-page ad"? If such there be, go mark him well, For him, no bank account shall swel! No angels watch the golden stair To welcome home a millionaire. The man who never asks for trade By column, page or inch displayed, Cares more for rest than worthly gain And patronage but gives him pain. Tread lightly, friends, let no rude 0 sound Disturb his solitude profound. Here let him live in calm repose, Unsought except by men he owes. When this man dies, go plant him deep, So naught may break has dreamless dream-less sleep; Wherein no clamor may dispel The quiet that he loved so well. So that the world may know its loss, Place on his grave a wreath of moss r tflf And. on a slab above "Here Lies A Pool Who Would Not Advertise." Adver-tise." oOo It won't "be long till some kids are drawing poor cards in school and the deuce will be at home. Get up with a grouch in the morning and you usually go from bed to worse. oOo- Doctor: (After restoring victim vic-tim to consciousness) "How did you happen to take that stuff? Didn't you read the sign on the bottle ? , it said 'Poison' Ebenzer: "Yessah, but ah didnt believe it." Doctor: "Why Not?" Ebonezer: "Cause right under-neat' under-neat' i it was a sign that said 'LyeV A. movie Idol underwent an operation op-eration for appendicitis the otlier day. You guessed it ' another openijig in Hollywood. ' ' V mi A A (WEVEXECIO0 lCXY ) "E2LETYOUIMOM ) OUC LITTLE SECRET ( "r5L BEFORE WE "TELL r) rVrV ' 'x akvdne 'L Mm UNLOCKING By Charles Courtney, AOVSNTUR 1 fcOPYRIGHT, 1943., ,NEA SERVICE. INC.v. CHAPTER I I HAVE an arrogant pair of hands. Whether they are making mak-ing way for a doctor, picking the lock on a door behind which a frightened girl is dying in childbirth, child-birth, or ferreting at the secret bolts of the chest in which Queen Isabella kept the jewels that financed Columbus, they are always al-ways leading me into unpredict able adventures. Some of these tures are hilarious and fan tastic; others, spine-freezing, and most of them, profitable. From my earliest memory my fingers molested every lock, watch, or motor within reach. They strewed my childhood with dismembered mechanical gadgets, but they did not pick locks until my seventh year. Then they began be-gan by pantry raiding. Our stepmother step-mother was a cook with a repu-,tation, repu-,tation, whose jams and jellies : brought highest prices at the local church raffles and school affairs. f She had resigned herself to a house strewn with dog bones, ragged caps, all the; flotsam and jetsam of seven children, but the jam closet was her holy of holies. Inside, on the shelves, tidily covered cov-ered with scalloped white wrapping wrap-ping paper, were rows of sweets: apple jelly, grape chips, wild blackberry, plum, and blueberry jam. One summer afternoon when "mother" and father had driven away in the buggy and left us to tend the baby, we tried to raid the pantry. The batten door was of thin, soft pine with such wide spaces between the boards that the light showed through, and .the lock was cheap,- but we could not force it. I ran into the kitchen and looked around. In a pan on the table was the skeleton of the chicken that we had eaten for dinner, picked white and clean. Collecting a - r - - xii IV" li Charles Courtney is tHe world's most famous locksmith. lock-smith. His. job has brought him adventure, around the. globe and under the sea. With so many forms 'and taxes for bUsin-esa. nnwurlava:: friend i husband can work late .t the of- I nee ana .mean it. . A most ingenious device Fprotects" a sleeping husband from o marauding - - . i . lill I - wite. i.napTer vi drumstick, a paring knife, and a file, I returned to the attack. tours of gouging and scrap ing, I whittled at the bone until It sprang the lock; then I opened, the closet, took out three j&rs of peach butter, and invited the rest of the children to a party in the woods. We might have escaped punishment if nature hadn't taken a hand, but father soon found out why we were groaning with stomach-aches. He went into the back , yard and cut a peach-tree switch. Because I was' the ring leader, I took the beating, but I was comforted by my pride. TTfHN her first child was born, our stepmother began to want the house for herself and her own family. She complained to father that she was overworked, and 'we grumbled because we felt neglected. neglect-ed. Father was trapped: by conflicting con-flicting loyalties: sympathy for us and love for his young wife. As a result the family was broker up. My oldest brother and sisters and a younger brother were sent to our grandmother in Prussia, another an-other brother went to Arkansas, and a sister to relatives in Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. They were all gone except ex-cept me and my half-brother. At first I was gnawed by a miserable mis-erable loneliness and moped about in the woods, looking for' the first arbutus at the edge of the patches burned by forest fires, or. hunting Wild persimmons that puckered the moutn when they were not t ntireJy-ripe, At home I helped. about the farm, hoeing potatoes and gathering apples. With the house to herself, my stepmother fixed up the large room upstairs and rented it to the summer boarders who came to the mountains moun-tains from Norfolk, Richmond, even as far away as Baltimore and Washington. They boarded with the farmers, fished in Three Forks river, and rode along dirt highways that were little more than bridle naths. The $2.50 a week that they paid for board: was a godsend to the farmers who had plenty of ham, eggs, and vege tables but rarely enough cash to buy a pair of shoes. Our two boarders were a Miss Neville and a friend from Portsmouth, Ports-mouth, Va. My brother and I called them school teachers because be-cause they were kind to us and tried to make a dent in our ignorance. igno-rance. Miss Neville liked canta loupes, so I, ran a mile down the road to a farmer who grew them and brought back melons that were perfectly ripe. She gave me red-hot piece of iron. This was where I wanted to work. From breakfast until supper I ran errands, delivered heavy packages of hinges or doorstops, or mended andirons; for in those days the blacksmith made and repaired re-paired everything from keys to iron cart tires. Sometimes I lelped about the forge, and that I liked. When the smith saw that I was quick with my hands and good at making kevs. he often turned, them 'l him Charles Courtney stumbles into a fob-u fob-u I ous modern harem in the Bronx. (Chapter X) nickels and told me tales about her brother who was an oflicer in the marines. . In the autumn, when Miss Neville Ne-ville left, I ran away from home. ' T WAS 9 years old and had never seen a sidewalk. Somebody gave me a ride tf Marion. It was a wonderful town standing against the mountain, with streets so steep that you were afraid the wagons and carriages coming down the hilB would fall on you. I wandered wan-dered Mown Main street, looking at the shop windows, trying to decide what to do. Before the blacksmith's shop several horses were tied, waiting to be shod; at one side of the entrance hung an iron key .a foot long, . enclosed in a scroll; inside the shop, a heavy, bald man with, his sleeves rolled tra was striking snarks from a Lack of Hews at Quebec Good Omen BY PETER EDSON XEA Staff Correspondent QUEBEC, Aug. 31 What little came out of the Quebec Conferencein Confer-encein the form of information that could be given to the public at this time very nearly didn't come out at all. Up until a few hours before, the joint statement was issued by the President and Prime Minister Churchill, there was uncertainty as to whether there would be any kind of press conference, though 200 newspaper men had been milling, around Quebec for more than a week, their .tongues hanging out a foot to lap up any little drop of information in-formation that might be dropped, or to gaze parch-mouthed and dry-eyed at the mirages of news in the Chateau Frontenac and the Citadel, if they could just get at them. There simply wasn't anything that could be told. The Bruish held out for no press conference at ajl. That would have stirred I un the animals and would have left the press with nothing to do t'jt pan the conference as a news flop. So wiser American counsel prevailed, and at a two-hour session ses-sion with the Prime Minister which the President admitted lasted until an early hour in the morning, the text of the joint statement was worked out and agreement reached to hold the press conference at which it was mad' public. ' The President was actually apologetic to the press for having hav-ing so little to tell and that in itself is news. Tt is the first time in memory that the President has apologized to the press for anything. Usually. the White House Spokesman is in the habit of panning the press for its shortcomings short-comings and wishing it would apologize for behaving the way it does. There must be something about this clear Quebec air where (California please note) the sun is warm in the daytime but you have to sleep under a blanket every night. Or maybe its those Quebec trout; the catching and eating qualities of. which the President plugged so hard. If a week's diet of Canadian trout does things like this to a man's disposition, there should be more Quebec conferences. The thing must have been a love feast all the way through. The President said' that this spot was the best yet for a conference, and that he and Mr. Churchill had said so a dozen times. Yes, it was a true meeting of minds in every respect. When the President Presi-dent praised the hospitality of Canada's Prime Minister Mac kenzie King, Prime Minister Churchill cut in with a "hear, hear!" ("heah, heah," .the way he said it) and iater on, at the close of the session, Mackenzie King came through with the assertion as-sertion that the visiting press had helped put the country on the world map. Churchill himself, him-self, in his remarks, admitted that though .differences of opinion opin-ion must arise when the staffs are working together, extreme cordiality prevails. You can judge from this just how things are. Charles Courtney turns down offer of o $10,000 cut-in on mobsters' haul, (Chapter XII) over to me. He disliked locks, but their intricacies fascinated me. Before long I had made for myself a set of picks and skeleton keys. Soon I made friends ' with the boys in the neighborhood. One evening when the wh6ie town was celebrating the victory of the local high school football team, four of us walked down Main street, looking look-ing for mischief. "Bet you I can open every door on this street' I boasted. While my confederates stood watch, I picked the locks of five stores. "Hsst!" they warned. "Here comes the cop." We hid while the one village policeman made his rounds and perfunctorily started to try the doors. The first one opened; so did the others. He trumpeted up the street, shouting for the owners. The merchants came running. We stuffed our fists into our mouths to keep from giggling while they made hasty inventories, found nothing missing, miss-ing, and persuaded themselves that in the excitement over the game they had forgotten to lock1 their doors. In my own circle, x was established as a first-cldss magician. (To Be Continued); (From the book' of the same name wxitten in collaboration tvith Thomas MV Johnson and published by Whittlesey House, Neut York CUu. The participants had gone through a series of conferences without controversy. The first line in a Washington correspondent's correspon-dent's copy book leing, "no controversy, con-troversy, no news, no good," the Quebec Conference might be put down as a news flop. But it wasn't. You have to read between the lines of the President's and Prime Minister Churchill's remarks re-marks to get the full significance, of the Quebec Conference, which is briefly this: 1. The military action planned at the Washington Conference in June, 1942, was carried out in North Africa in November. 2. The action planned at Casablanca Casa-blanca is just being carried out now. 3. For news of the action planned plan-ned at Quebec, you'll have to wait till it happens, and these things don't happen overnight or over the weekend. They take time. Prime Minister Churchill asked the press to give the best aid it could in spreading a feeling of confidence without revealing all there is to , know. The President echoed this need of confidence of the people back home, and since he was so nice and apologetic apolo-getic about not being able to tell all he knew at this time, it is only fair to cooperate by passing along the word. s r" Just as the President made his request for the confidence of the people at home, somebody rang a dinner boll at the Citadel by way ot accidental emphasis. At the beginning of the conference, the sky was overcast. It had rained th night before and thin, low clouds hung over the Citadel, just skirting the tops of the flagpoles flag-poles over the King's Bastion with its 17th-century cannon pointing out over Old Quebec and the St. Lawrence River. There was no breeze, and the three flags of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States hung limply at their masts. On a fourth mast hung the President's own blue flag. Then, just at the end of the conference, after the President had read his statment, a good breeze came up from the west. The four flags stood out straight from their masts, the clouds broke, the sky turned bright blue and the sun came out strong. Maybe it was symbolic. MERRY - GO - A Daily Picture of What's Ly(S:rP Going on in National Affairs ndotm. WASHINGTON A new Republican candidate candi-date for President of the United States has . bobbed up in the midwest recently. He is Wheeler McMillen. editor of the Farm Journal, owned t-y Pennsylvania's monied political boss Joe Pew. A. . Mr. McMillen has been making the rounds of Indiana. Nebraska, I-owa ahd the corn belt as an open and avowed candidate for the Republican Re-publican nomination. His reception has been one of surprised speculation. Since Mr. McMillen Mc-Millen obviously has no chance of getting anywhere, any-where, it is presumed that GOP's anti-Willkie Joe Pew sent him out as a decoy to attract farm votes away from Willkie and generally to confuse the issue. However, one interesting thing turned up about Mr. McMillen in Indiana. He is the president presi-dent of the Chemurgic Council, which aims to promote the use of agricultural products in industry. in-dustry. However, when Senator Gillette of Iowa led a brilliant crusad" for the use of alcohol from grain in making synthetic rubber, McMillen Mc-Millen strangely enough took a strong position that rubber should be made exclusively from petroleum, not from grain products. McMil-len's McMil-len's boss Joe Pew of Sun Oil is one of the biggest oil men in th" country and is operating an oil synthetic rubt'er plant for the government.) govern-ment.) ' So when McMillen put himself in the position posi-tion of working against the use of farm products prod-ucts in industry, outraged Hassel Sehenck, head ot the b arm liureau in Indiana, caneu for his resignation as president of the Chemurgic Che-murgic Council. This bobbed up to haunt Mr. McMillen on his tour through Indiana recently. NEWSPRINT EXTRA VACiANZA While President Roosevelt and Prime Ministers Minis-ters Churchill and Mackenzie King we're cementing friendship of the British Empire and the United States in Ottawa, an announcement 'was made in Windsor, Ontaria, that made many U. S. publishers broiling mad, especially in TX--troit. The Windsor Star, published directly across the river- irom Detroit, announced that on S-pt. H it would release a ISO page special anniversary anniver-sary edition, including a 64 page rotogravure section. Like most newspapers throughout the country, coun-try, the Detroit papers have had to cut down their editorial content to get within the strict WPB limits on newsprint. They have had to cancel hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising ad-vertising contracts and to limit even the size of want ads. Canadian newspapers apparently have not felt the pinch. It is fine to unite the sentiments of the United States, Canada and England, some observers feel, but this is no time to Haunt peace-time anniversary editions in the face of the U. S. press when the wartime shortage is supposedly so acute. TIRE PLANT FOR RUSSIA Few people are aware of the y-c that one of our biggest tire plants, with a capacity of 20,000 tires a day, has been literally lifted from its Henry Ford foundations in Dearborn. Mich., and sent to the Soviets. It is probably the greatest lend-lease operation on record. The plan was to have the Red Army ride to victory on tires made by U. S. machinery. This operation was carried through despite the opposition of Rubier Administrator Big Bill Jeffers, who found after he first came to Washington that the deal already had been made. He declared, however, that our own synthetic rubber program would require all the tire manufacturing capacity the country has ever had and more and that a whole plant should not be carried off to another country. Lend-Lease argued that the U. S. rubber shortage made the Ford -plant idle, but Jeffers countered that it would not be idle long, in view of the new production of synthetic rubber. Jeffers even carried the question directly to the President. But FDR told him that a commitment com-mitment had been made, and a protocol (treaty) been drawn up with Russia by which the tire plant was promised in writing. So the Rubber Director shrugged his shoulders. He now learns that it required six months to dismantle the plant and ship it to sealoard. It was sent from Pacific Coast ports -to Vladivostok, then across the Siberian wastes to Russia, where its location is a military secret. So far as can be learned here, the factory fac-tory is not yet in operation. If the Russians can make it run, it will be used to produce about 10,000 heavy-duty military tires a day. The U. S. production of 20,000 was in terms of passenger car tires. In addition to the tire factory, we havenow shipped 2,000,000 tires to Russia, and another 500,000 are being prepared for shipment. Officials of the Rubber Administrator's office of-fice do not want to measure tires against human lives, or to suggest that our sacrifice of tires can be compared to Russia's heroic sacrifices on the battle front. But they do feel the public in both countries should have the facts so they will know what we are up against when it conies to supplying synthetic tires to the home -market next year. NOTE: Jeffers has "just gotten WPB approval ap-proval for a vast program of building new tire plants, and converting others which have been making different rubber articles. Though these facilities will not all be ready until the latter part of next year, Jeffers stil expects to pro-. pro-. duce the 30,000,000 tires his schedule calls for. Incidentally, the tire-plant program is being paid for by the industry, involves no cost to the gov ernment. MERRV-CiO-UOUNI) There was a very important hush-hush discussion dis-cussion inside the Democratic National Committee Commit-tee regarding the recent meeting of Young Democratic leaders in Chicago. Real fact was that the President and Frank Walker didn't want the Young Dems to meet, felt that a political meeting of this kind was not in keeping keep-ing with the war. also that the Young Dems would be sure to run up against the unanswered but all-important question: "Will FDR run for a 4th Term?" . . . Not all the United Mine Workers agree with John L. Lewis in his hatred for the CIO. The other day one Miners' local sent the CIO a check for $1100 for the CIO War Relief Committee. Another Miners' local has been sending the CIO a monthly check . . . One reason John L. took the miners out of the CIO was because the CIO had spent part of $1,250,000 it allegedly owed the United Mine Workers to buy a headquarters building near the White House . . . Friends are commiserating com-miserating with Representative Calvin Johnson Illinois Republican, one of the coming younjr members of Congress, who has just lost his eldest eld-est son, a U. S. Army flier (Copyright, 1943 by United Feature Syndicate, line.) The enemies we will have to conquer con-quer in the, coming battle for a just peace will be the aspirations, the rivalries and the mutual distrust of nations, instigated by the avaricious-ness avaricious-ness of long-intrenched special interests. in-terests. Frederick E. Hasler, president presi-dent Pan-American Society. ' j w |